Central Western Maryland Rail Schedule Extract
Trains depart Cumberland daily except Sundays, with outward bound runs to Vale Summit Dan's Rock and Lonaconing. Timetables show station-by-station timings and special theatre trains on authorization, with limited stops at Westernport Allegany Mount Savage Junction. Carriage service between Vale Summit and Dan's Rock available by advance application. James A. Milholland, General Manager.
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Dan's Rock
Cumberland
Vale Summit
Washington Street
G. Co and
C. Ro Co
James A. Milholland
Piedmont
Westernport
Bartonae Oat Wu Moscow
Pekin
Lonaconing
Midland
Waitt
Log Ocean
Carlos Junction
Cumberlain
Allegany
Mount Savage
C. L. Bretz
Oil Pipeline Breakthrough Proposed by Schneider and Professor
Correspondence from Frostonie March 15 1906 reports Prof J Oglesthorpe and German foreman Schneider proposing a rope like oil transport system. Miniature tests claim to cut steam power costs, with up and down grade limits enabling four mile per hour flows in summer and three in winter. Commercial trials planned with oil companies backing large scale experiments.
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Pormat
J. Hepplesthorpe
West Prazee
Ger
Schneider
Ropy
Oglesthorpe
Oil Company
Oglesthorpe-Schneider
Adam F. Acher
Runaway Court Courtship Ends in Mount Lowe Verbal Vow
A young man hailing from Los Angeles plans a spontaneous wedding to Dorothy Allen. After racing to the courthouse, he enlists a Unitarian minister, and a Mount Lowe excursion becomes the setting for a public marriage proposal amid a cheering crowd and a cannon display.
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Dorothy
Los Angeles
Mr. B
The
Unitarian
Altadena
Mount Lowe
Echo Mountain
Dolly
Gatee
Stories Told In the Cloakrooms
A parade of senate anecdotes features Pettus, Pugh, Clayton, Sibley, Foraker, Grosvenor, Campbell and others. Tales recount age, wit, battles, and political clashes from cloakroom chat as the lawmakers recall careers and quips across Alabama Georgia Ohio Kansas and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pettus
Alabama
Senate
White House
Dettus
Pugh
California
Tie
Mary in the Margins of a Theatre of Grief
A fragmentary verse piece sketches a girl named Mary amid solemn scenes and comic misreadings. The narrator questions why her ailment or misfit presence sparks laughter and wonder, contrasting sorrow with Mary’s quiet endurance. The San Francisco Call quotes a brief exchange about propriety and misread intent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Augustus
Good Roads Advocate Outlines Road and Drainage Needs
W E Loucks spoke in Wetzel county West Virginia urging hillside roads slope toward the hill and drain using simple scientific principles. He warned curbstones should slope away from the roadway and explained how better roads attract traffic and support factories and farming by supplying a reliable base of goods and workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Loucks
Wetzel County
W. Va
Clergyman's Sermon Passes To Curate In Coincidence
In a small city a pastor invited to lead Sunday services in a neighboring town entrusts his new curate with duties. At home he asks his wife about the sermon, she calls it the worst yet. The curate admits he preached the minister's old sermon, lacking preparation.
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Charles TH. Grosvenor
Ohio
Cottress
Athens
Greece
Grosvenor
Old Pissers
Histo Congress
Baker
New York
Mer. Hemenway
Todiana
Philadelphia Ledger
Judge Boo Montanas Bullish Walk Inspires Laughs
A well known Montana judge and politician is described strolling in deep meditation when puffing and bellowing resemble a bull. Mrs B and friends hear a distant sound as a bullney appears around the courthouse wall, yet the judge is unseen, creating a humorous moment reported by Lippincott's Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boo
Montana
Flore
That Curious Hobby Clips Wedding Notices in Scrapbook
Mrs. Elenpeck notes a remark about a young Mrs. Potter who collects wedding notices from the paper. Her husband half hopes she uses them for a scrapbook, or so the exchange suggests a private motive.
Hix Jinks Receives Pension Amid Naval Records Question
Dialog records Hix Jinks obtaining a pension while Dix questions his war record. Hix notes two hazing incidents at the Naval Academy as One Sided. Cholly recalls a long talk with Hix and Miss Pepprey remarks on the exchange with Philadelphia Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tan Hamilton
Tiamilton
Bloemfontein
Phamilton
Hix
Jinks
Dix
Naval Academy
Cholly
Pepprey
Philadelphia Press
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P. C. Barnes
Barton, MD
Chas. B. Shoemaker
Tnion Streeet
Presburg
Mad
Pragues
Geo. N. Beall
Frost Avenue
Frostburg
Uranus
Eade Jans
I. L. Ritter
C.l.delauter
Famow
Somerset County
Pal
Meyersdale, Pa
Georges Creek and Cumberland Railroad
Aily
Promcentral Station
Allegany Grove
Claurysville
Sam
Vale
Clarysville
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad CO
Prom Lonaconing
J. H. Hitchins
R Mining Journal
Frostonie, Min
LG Thirteenth
Metture, Phillips & Co
George
Nell
Gusly
Poe
Santa Monies
Bath House
Treavens
Dorothy Allen
John
Joan
Africa
Shanghai
Alpine Tavern
I Hamilton
Arctic
Titienea
Peru
FE. W. Petius
Henry JD. Clayton
Griggs
Georgia
Niles
Clayton
Henderin
Henry Dpd
Patterson
Roosevelt
Denver
Butler
Usul
Darky
Joseph C. Sibley
Pennsylvania
Sibley
United States
Senator Foraker
Mr. Foraker
J. B. Foraker
Moraker
Foraker
ED Owas
Johns
Charles H. Grosvenor
Kansas
Standard Oil Company
Oil Trust
Philip Pitt Campbell
House of Representatives
Campbell
Standard
Congressman
Townsend
Michigan
Mr. Campbell
Nova Scotia
Baker University
TSS
James A. Hemenway
Indiana
Weldon B. Heyburn
Idaho
Hemenway
Senator Heyburn
House
Heyburn
LT Hope
Chilip Pitt Campbell
She Giggles
Sweet Mary
Miss Mirxles
Kigeles
Thamlet
Mars
Phinuet
Praiver
Colonel Brown
Young Jones
Miss Ongbonpwong Phe
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